So happy I got to hear more news of the next great album released by Morrissey. Come on guys, did you read that? THERE´S a seven minute song...hello-o...

And the way Tony talks about the music and lyrics assures us this must really be His greatest effort to date( Including Smiths' stuff ).

And the b-sides... oh my Lord... Good Looking Man About Town. This is so typical of fim... what a track title!

Morrissey, You are the greatest singer ever.

By the way, boy Do I Hate the people who come here to slag Moz and Moz's career off. Go get a life Morons!!! Try to see the beauty of life. Fly away from the frozen lands you who live in the northern hemisphere are generally granted with.

Do like Morrissey, move to a tropicalish place and write the best record of you lives. Stop groaning and moaning. Stop trying to pick holes in whatever Morrissey does. Leave really -ok-Julia alone as well. She could be on Smiths's single sleeve now...

Am I excited about it all? Boy, ... this is my personal celebration of Xmax as I abhor whatever concers the actual date.

i know this is a very minor detail, but in image 2 -- the sidebar where morrissey speaks/writes in his own words, it's nice to see that he name-checked boz and alain before the new band members -- namely tobias. it leads one to believe that alain is still in the upper ranks above the new band members. again, this is a very minor detail to speculate about, but when hasn't this site been a place to disect the minor details.

barking at the moon with contentment. Thank You!

I looked this morning all over Harvard Square for this darn magazine, made the sales guy get out from behind the counter to go help me. But to console myself I walked out of Tower Records with Saint Morrissey, a fabulous biography. Well it is not just a biography, and Mark Simpson did a superb job, composing the book with accounts of his "Morrissitis", of Morrissey's life in a very well-balanced psycho and sociological detail.

And a very strange blue-eyed guy, fragile to angelic appearance, look so avidly at the yellow book when I pulled it from my bag at the café. It was really weird: he looked at me and the book, the book and me, as if he were looking at a passion he had to forgo, and had met again. His friend also had the same blue eyes, very delicate too, translucent skin. You had to see his eyes: painfully blue, like Morrissey's. It made me think of the mysterious, multifarious blue-eyed characters in Rememberance of Things Past.

I guess I am a very happy Woolf today.

to get all worked up about this album, but Tony Visconti is saying all the right things: love, death, irony, poetry, new inspirations, complex melodies, amazing vocals, cohesive band effort, a double-album's worth of great songs - it's too, too much.

I am swooning already.

...a scan from the front-cover. Can you please send the files to joe@jsell.de? I´m living and Germany and can only buy the NME in 2 weeks time. Would be very kind. Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Bye - JoeSell

I am surprised nobody has mentioned this comment by Mr. Visconti from the article:

“We had about 20 songs to choose from and some of my favourites ended up as B-sides,” he explains. “I really mean it when I say Morrissey has found a new muse because his writing is incredible. To turn this into a 12-track CD was really a heartbreaker for me. It deserved to be a double.

"But we do plan reissue the CD in late 2006 with all but 3 of the B-sides."

On September 1st, 1980, The Jam wrote a song called "Boy About Town" and put it on one of the greatest albums ever entitled "Sound Effects". {If you are a Moz fan and you do not have this album, make it a point to buy it! You will not regret one single penny} Anyways, when I saw the knews about the new single B-Side entitled "'Good Looking Man About Town', I thought in question to myself, "hmmm, the boy is now a man and is 'still' walking about the town?" He must be a pretty outstanding fellow if both Paul Weller and Morrissey have both written songs about him? Maybe if I start to walk around downtown everyday, someone will write a song about me? Any offers??? {smile-its healthy for you}-Merry Christmas and Happy New Years Morrissey Solo!

...does he? In the pic with mr. V.

Thanks for taking the time to scan these! It isn't said enough but it is very appreciated by many of us here.

I know it's absurd, but I'm so glad that Morrissey loves Italy, and Rome (the only city in the world I would live, apart from Madrid where I am) somehow influences him in his new record that I can't wait... as the rest of the people. Just that I can't wait to March.

His eyes look tired.

I think the LP will be wonderful. I can't wait for the release.

It was good of people to make these scans and transcripts available to site visitors. I chuckled at Morrissey's assurance that, despite his involvement with T. Rex - also a name of a dinosaur - Visconti is very modern and 2006. Readywit!

As he revealed that the album explores struggle, rocking the boat and suchlike, I remembered an article on this subject which, while having a specific group in mind, is, I think, a very good stab at understanding what's involved and why people bother, or give up, as the case may be. It's at: (remove errant spaces) http://www.cheshire.ie/_Cheshire/Documents/Struggl e.doc

"It doesn't come naturally to me to endear myself to the public" ...

Oh, how I love the everlasting modesty of this charming man, even when it comes in such bluntly false statements like these!

Oh, Moz, you have charmed more people in the planet than any human being has the right to...But sadly in the most unatural, unhuman way - Moz for all, all for Moz.

It's a problem with beautiful Narcissus, whose tragic fate is to charm others without being charmed, and when charmed, charmed in a way others don't understand, by an unconventional and unaccepted form of love; whose spell can only be broken once he finds someone else to trade himself with. Good luck in Rome, charmer..."I'm overdoing it now, so let me shut up"

I can't believe this comment only got a score of -1. It is ridiculous and offensive and should be marked down much, much further.

DAVID, you should stop and withdraw this awful post. Racist, illegal and which has nothing to do here, nothing to deal with Morrissey. As a fan, i really feel hurt and real pain in my heart to read such a thing here. I guess i am not the only one. Morrissey is Love, dont you understand (well except for a few judges and... Mike Joyce and... sometimes Elton John and a few others), nothing but love.